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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Wessels mine, Hotazel, Kalahari Mn fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- SmCabinet 6x4.5x3cm
Reddish or peachy thin bladed crystal sprays of Inesite. The crystals are roughly 4mm in length and radiate outward from common center. Excellent specimen.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Wessels mine, Hotazel, Kalahari Mn fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- Thumbnail 2x2x2cm
A nice combination thumbnail with fan-like sprays to 1cm of pink bladed Inesite crystals, some of which are terminated, on translucent purplish-gray botryoidal Hydroxylapophyllite and associated with white tuffs of Oyelite.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Wessels mine, Hotazel, Kalahari Mn fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Formula
- Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O
- Size
- SmCabinet 4x6x1cm
- Tagged
- zeolite
Plate of red Inesite crystals to 2mm covering matrix with a bit of colorless Aphophyllite. Label dated at 1961. Not quite as red as the digital photos turned out.